Anna Serrano Gatell

Director and currently artistic coordinator of the Sala Beckett, Anna Serrano Gatell holds  a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the UPF. She has trained in directing and playwriting at Eòlia and at the Sala Beckett. She was artistic coordinator of ELS MALNASCUTS, the young creation laboratory of the Sala Beckett, where she co-directed LIKE SI LLORAS (Sala Beckett, 2016/Volksbühne, 2017/La Pedrera, 2018). She is co-founder of the VVAA collective, where she co-directed WOHNWAGEN (La Seca/Teatro Español, 2017), nominated for Best New Playwriting Show at the 2017 Butaca Awards and winner of the 2017 BBVA Theatre Award. She co-directed POOL (NO WATER), produced by Íntims Produccions (Fira Tàrrega, 2017/Sala Beckett, 2018). She was co-creator of the show THIS IS REAL LOVE (Sala Beckett/Teatre Lliure, 2019), winner of the 2019 New Playwriting Critics’ Award. She was playwright and co-director of the play ARCAS2020 with the VVAA collective at the Teatre Lliure and Teatros del Canal (2022). In 2024 she directed Baby No More by the VVAA collective at the TNC. Outside the collective she has directed the play Fuck You Modern Family (Sala Beckett, 2019), Allò que hi ha després del diumenge by the company AMAGA (Sala Beckett, 2022) and Cacophony by Molly Taylor (Sala Beckett, 2024 and 2025, and Teatro de la Abadía, 2025). She participated as a director and playwright in the projects Escena Pilot (Teatre Lliure, 2022) and En Residència (Teatre Lliure, 2019).

As an assistant theatre and dance director she has worked with Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs, David Selvas, Andrés Lima, Jordi Oriol, Pere Faura and Pau Carrió.

She directed L’autora by Ella Hickson, premiered at the Teatre Lliure in May 2026.